In the early outcome study on EFCT (1985), EFCT showed more significant effects on marital adjustment and intimacy than standard behavioral couple therapy (BMT). Later research findings in EFCT (1999) showed (70–73%) of couples moved into recovery from distress and 86-90% experienced significant improvement. Long term follow up studies showed stable relationship change maintained over […]

Susan Johnson developed Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy twenty years ago when “emotion was almost a dirty word in couples therapy”. In the June, 2012, volume of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Johnson writes about recent research findings and EFCT, which is “now part of a new scientific understanding of love relationships, and…a new […]

E.M.D.R. therapy is highly effective in helping families. Childhood experiences and family patterns of interaction condition us to habitual and often unconscious ways of interacting with others. Later in life, some patterns of interaction we experienced earlier in childhood may interfere in our adult relationships. If disturbing unprocessed memories from past experience are being triggered […]

Why do some people experience P.T.S.D. after a traumatic event, while others do not? The information processing system of the brain naturally processes disturbing events by eliminating negative thoughts, emotions and body sensations maladaptive to our present day functioning and P.T.S.D. occurs when an incident is so disturbing that it interferes with the adaptive information […]

Bruce Lipton, renowned cell biologist and author of the bestseller, The Biology of Belief, recommends EMDR as one of the most effective ways of re-programming the subconscious mind. In his book, The Biology of Belief, Lipton writes, “Positive thoughts are a biological mandate for a happy, healthy, life.” Over 95% of our thoughts are generated […]

The health section of NY Times recently featured, Francine Shapiro, developer of EMDR who responded to a number of questions from readers about EMDR. In on of her posts she address the common misconception that only events such as combat trauma, sexual abuse and rape, physical abuse, and violence constitute trauma. In her March 16th […]

Adopting a Mindful Awareness Approach to the Holidays Adopting a mindful approach during the holidays can help lift spirits, calm nerves, and feed the Soul. In his book,Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-Zinn, author and renown mindfulness teacher, encourages practicing the attitudes of non-judging, acceptance, non-striving, and letting go to develop mindful awareness of our experience […]